Post by cjm on Jan 4, 2015 12:33:43 GMT

A shapeless blob?

Not altogether a meaningless question as the shape (apparently) has functional implications.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that all chromosomes are X-shaped bundles. But new research MRC-funded research has shown that they spend most of their time looking more like a tangled mass of string, as Peter Fraser, a researcher at the Babraham Institute, explains.